Library Greeting: A little light reading

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The library will close early on Wednesday November 22 and all day Thursday through Saturday November 23 – 25 for Thanksgiving. It will reopeon on Monday November 27, at 9:30 a.m.

Disgraced,ex-detectiveHarper Adams is perfectly content wallowing at rock bottom. She's lost her job, house, and reputation, and it only gets worse when she's forced to move back home to Jackson Creek, Ark., the one place she swore she'd never return.

Buteverythingchangeswhen she gets chilling news. A childhood friend's daughter is missing... and it's eerily reminiscent of Harper's sister's kidnapping and murder two decades ago. But it is not her business, or is it?

Except with the police fumbling the case at every turn, Harperrealizesshemightbethe only one who can save the girl. With a friend's child missing, and the police failing, disgraced ex-detective Harper enlists the aid of James Malcolm, a former crimebosstountangleamystery that strikes too close to home.

Little Girl Vanished is a Harper Adams Mystery by author Denise Grover Swank.

Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming's BighornMountains,whereWalt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the first time he saw a man die.

In the late forties, Bill Sutherland was shot but the investigation was stymied because no member of the elk camp (where he was found) was carrying the caliber rifle that killed the state accountant.WhenDogdiscovers the missing weapon, the sheriff of Absaroka County is plunged headfirst into a cold case.

His investigation quickly finds ties to a hidden mineral fund that someone is willing to kill to keep secret. The embodiment of the fair-minded detective, Walt is pushed to his ethical boundaries.

In his relentless pursuit of the truth, he discovers the rifle in question belonged to none other than Walt's infamous and uncompromising grandfather, Lloyd Longmire.

A cold case that hits very close to home for Sheriff Walt Longmire and forces him to put his life on the line with implications that some people would kill to keep buried forever.

Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West in The Longmire Defense by Craig Johnson.

In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all.

There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves port, Catherine's past returns with a vengeance and threatens her life. Joining forces with a charismatic jewel thief, Catherine must discover who wants her dead-and why.

Elena Palacio is a dead woman. Or so everyone thinks. After a devastating betrayal left her penniless and on the run, Elena's journey on the Morro Castle is her last hope.

Steeped in secrecy and a burning desire for revenge, her return to Havana is a chance to right the wrong that has been done to her-and her prey is on the ship.

As danger swirls aboard the Morro Castle and their fates intertwine,ElenaandCatherine must risk everything to see justice served once and for all.

TheCubanHeiress byChanel Cleeton's is a novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the American Ocean Liner SS Morro Castle.